Standing Right Next to You

If you are interested, I found my biological mother and the rest of my family. I actively looked with no breaks for only one month. The story has so many twists and turns its still hard for me to grasp.

I found out who they were the day before Thanksgiving. It turns out I had an older brother and two younger sisters and a younger brother. The older brother I have known for about ten years, and I know his children. We hung out in the same group of friends. I even knew where his/my mom lived, and if I had met her, I would have known right away, because we look like twins but only 16 years apart.

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The reunion has been happy so far, but no one has really heard my true feelings yet about the way it has made me feel for the past twenty-four years. What will happen next? I have no idea, but it seems like we can all remain friends. The weirdest thing a lot of people have heard in a long time, but still happy. My mother went to the same high school as me, and I went to high school and graduated with all my cousins. My mother went to high school with my whole adopted family as well, and my biological mother and I, ended up hanging out with the same friend, just a different generation.

I had talked to many of my aunts and uncles before even knowing that they were related to me. We have started the whole process of me trying to meet the immediate family. So far, all has been going well. My biggest grudge forever has been only against my mother and her mother. Now that I have met them both, it is very hard for me to be mad anymore. They are both great people that just had hard times. I guess I can understand that, but on the other side I had a child when I was sixteen. I kept her and love raising her. (She is now 7.)

It has been a roller coaster of emotions the past month, but I know I will survive. If I received this newsletter, I obviously have visited the website, and it has helped me in some way. Thank you for listening, and for everyone out there that is looking for someone, don't ever think they cannot be standing right next to you.

For a while, I searched too hard, and that is why I had no responses. My whole family was right in front of my face, and I never knew it. Now that I do, I don't know what to do, because you can never be prepared for what will happen next. Good luck to everyone, and I hope everyone has a happy ending like mine.

Credits: Nicole